Without Title 29x22 2014 Monotype

Year1994

Hand SignedDedicated And Signed Verso “Camden Arts Centre- Patrick Heron 5 November, 199 

Condition Excellent 

Purchased fromAuction House 2021 

Story / Additional InfoPatrick Heron (1920 - 1999)

Title: Without title
Medium: Original Monotype, 1994, dedicated and signed verso “Camden Arts Centre/Patrick Heron/ 5 November 1994 VIII
Size: 760 x 570 mms
Note: The artist made a series of 12 Monotypes for his show at the Camden Arts Centre in 1994 of which this is one, and a Unique a unique piece. Also included in the exhibition were a series of large canvases which were conceived with Camden Arts Centre’s galleries in mind. Startling in their freshness, these works challenge Heron’s own picture making conventions. Unsettled and charged dialogues with new images and spacial configurations open up new formal possibilities, while at the same time continuing the process of discovery and consolidation which has characterised Heron’s work over six decades.
Heron comments 'it is obvious that colour is now the only direction in which painting can travel. Painting still has a continent left to explore; in the direction of colour (and in no other direction)... 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID146362

Patrick Heron - United Kingdom

Art Brokerage: Patrick Heron British Artist: b. 1920-1999. Painter, formerly also textile designer and writer on art. Born 30 January 1920 in Leeds, son of T.M. Heron, founder of Cresta Silks and Christian sociologist. Lived at St Ives 1925 - 30. Studied at the Slade School 1937- 39 His painting was interrupted by the war; in 1945 he settled in London and began to paint again. Deeply impressed by the Braque exhibition at the Tate Gallery 1946. First one-man exhibition in London at the Redfern Gallery 1947 and in New York at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery 1960. Art critic to the New Statesman and Nation 1947- 50, and London correspondent to Arts (New York) 1955-38. Retrospective exhibition, Wakefield Art Gallery and northern tour 1952; twelve paintings in the São Paulo Bienal 1953-54. Turned to abstract art under the influence of American abstract painting 1956 and moved the same year to Zennor, Cornwall. Awarded First Prize in the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 1959, and a silver medal at the Sao Paolo Bienal in 1965. He had retrospective exhibitions at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1972 and at the Barbican Art Gallery in 1985; the same year he was included in the St Ives Exhibition at the Tate Gallery. He was created a CBE in 1977 and became a Trustee of the Tate Gallery in 1980. He died peacefully at his home in Zennor, Cornwall, in March 1999 at the age of 79. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.